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[Thomps2525]

David, not only are you very knowledgeable about radio, you spell Hawai'i correctly and not the Anglicized way without the apostrophe. That means you probably also pronounce Maui and Kauai properly, with each vowel as a separate syllable, saying "Mah-oo-ee" and "Kah-oo-ah-e" instead of the Anglicized "Mou-wee" and "Kow-eye." I'm impressed!

So, based on your description of how LinkedIn counts dates, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day would be a two-year holiday. I'm all for that!

 

[davideduardo]

David, not only are you very knowledgeable about radio, you spell Hawai'i correctly and not the Anglicized way without the apostrophe. That means you probably also pronounce Maui and Kauai properly, with each vowel as a separate syllable, saying "Mah-oo-ee" and "Kah-oo-ah-e" instead of the Anglicized "Mou-wee" and "Kow-eye." I'm impressed!

I've worked with two of the Poi Boys, Congressman Cecil Heftel, the former GM of KGMB, and the Chief Engineer of several of the FMs on Oahu. I learned by osmosis.

 

[Bongwater]

The station could have changed call letters when they had the all-advertising format and pronounced it "Cost" instead of "Coast."

Radio Cost was a station on the French Riveria/Monaco in the '70s and '80s. I'm sure it connoted to the general price of living there......

 

[hm insulators]

David, not only are you very knowledgeable about radio, you spell Hawai'i correctly and not the Anglicized way without the apostrophe. That means you probably also pronounce Maui and Kauai properly, with each vowel as a separate syllable, saying "Mah-oo-ee" and "Kah-oo-ah-e" instead of the Anglicized "Mou-wee" and "Kow-eye." I'm impressed!

So, based on your description of how LinkedIn counts dates, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day would be a two-year holiday. I'm all for that!

Actually, "MOUwee" is the correct Hawaiian pronunciation for that island as there is no "glottal stop" (not really an apostrophe in this case) like there is in Hawai'i or Kaua'i. The first three letters in "Kaua'i" are pronounced more or less like "kow" as the two vowels' pronunciation are slurred. (In other words, if the "Garden Island" was really pronounced "Kah-oo-AH-ee," then the correct Hawaiian spelling would be Ka'u'a'i. (Notice the extra glottal stops that don't belong.) So Kaua'i is really pronounced "KowAH-ee." You slur the first three vowels, then there's a little "hiccup" of silence (like saying, "Uh-oh") before you pronounce the I.

LARadioRewind is right in that Kaua'i is definitely not pronounced "cow-eye." Even worse, once, I heard a news story on some national radio network many years ago where the (obviously mainland!) newscaster pronounced it "cow-wee"! NO, NO, NO!

(Note for the moderator: We need a "banging head" emoticon where he bangs his head again and again and again into a brick wall.)

 

[Thomps2525]

Mister insulators, I know we've gotten off the original subject here but I want to thank yo'u for yo'ur clarificati'on of the proper pronunci'ati'on of the Hawai'ian language.

Someday I'll share my complaints about the Anglicization of the pronunciations of "Los Angeles" and its many streets, including "Los Robles" and "Paraiso" and "Figueroa" and "Sepulveda" and "San Pedro." After that, we can talk about the three different pronunciations of "New Orleans."

We now return you to your regularly scheduled KOST discussion.

 

[davideduardo]

Someday I'll share my complaints about the Anglicization of the pronunciations of "Los Angeles" and its many streets

The worst is Los Feliz.

And the city in Louisiana is GNAW-lihns.

 

[pjc1961]

KOST's playlist is at http://www.kost1035.com/music/playlist/index.html?net=1

Near the bottom of the 631-song list---only 631?---are quite a few 1960s hits, including Daydream Believer, A Natural Woman, Bad Moon Rising, I Can't Get Next To You, Magical Mystery Tour, For Once In My Life, Gimme Some Lovin' and Back In The USSR. The lower part of the playlist also includes Footloose, Love Rollercoaster, Bang A Gong, The Love You Save and Up Around The Bend. Am I to conclude that KOST is no longer an adult contemporary station? Whatever the format, I agree with Mister calguy: KOST has certainly changed!

I don't know where that playlist comes from. The actual monitored BDS playlist is about 350 deep, and does not include any of those titles in the bottom 200 or so of the online list.

I even went back and reviewed songs played so far this year, and none of those strange songs was actually played.

Most AC stations today run in the 300-350 title range.

Perhaps those songs are showing up on the KOST website because (possibly) KOST may run online-only the nationally programmed "Classic Lite" in overnight hours (approximately 1am to 5-6am) which features soft rock/classic hits/oldies from roughly 1965-1973 (may even be narrower). The service runs on the overnight online streams of WSHE Miami, WASH Washington and WLTW New York, to name a few. It's odd to see the on-air set of titles/artists scrolling in the online field description while a different set of titles/artists is actually heard online. I believe the on-air and online titles co-mingle on the iHeart players and "Last Ten Played" pages on the website for these stations. Thus, the likely reason for the older titles appearing on the station website overall playlists for WSHE, WASH + WLTW.

Or, as someone suggested, the older titles could be "pooling" on KOST's website playlist from other sources. As I post this message, it's ~1:25am PT and the online KOST is not in classic mode.

 

[semoochie]

Portland's AC K103 runs the same service online and their playlist has more genuine "Oldies" than their sister Classic Hits station before the latter cut WAY back on the 60s!